【单选题】

On June 17,1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and MaryCollege. In a letter the next day they refused the offers as follows:

We know that you have a (26) opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the (27) of living of our young men, while (28) you, would be very great to you. We are (29) that you mean to do us (30) by your proposal; and we thank you (31) .But you must know (32) different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will (33) not be (34) if our ideas of this kind of education happen (35) be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were (36) brought (37) at the colleges of the northern provinces: they were taught all your sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, (38) of every means of living in the woods — they were totally (39) for nothing. We are, however, (40) , (41) by your kind (42) , though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a (43) of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in (44) we know, and make (45) of them.
A．ignorant
B．innocent
C．negligent
D．arrogant